Hey you!

Movie
Original title	Hey you!
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1970
length	92 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Rolf Römer
script	Rolf Römer
production	DEFA , KAG "Red Circle"
music	Klaus Lenz
camera	Peter Krause
cut	Brigitte Krex
occupation
Annekathrin Bürger : Ellen Volkmann Frank Obermann : Frank Rothe Petra Hinze : Ulli Heinz-Dieter Knaup : Horst Bach Rolf Specht : Maxe Krahl Wolfgang Greese : Psychologist Matthias Behrens : student Ute Boeden : Jutta Dietmar Richter-Reinick : Abraham Horst Kube : Karl Bodo Schmidt : Pipes Rolf Mey-Dahl : mosquito Dieter Mann : Bernd Winfried Wagner : Dr. Ralf Lindberg Karl Sturm : Siegfried Peschel Dieter Vienna : Lothar Meinel Heinrich Banet : Robert Brigitte Beier : Irene Mehnert Susanne Düllmann : Ute Breuer Roland Oehme : Hans Oehmke Günter Schubert : Dieter Loewe Margrit Linser : Antje Carola Braunbock : Mrs. Laube Anette Böttche : Helga Karl-Heinz Weiß : Hans Breuer Johannes Wieke : Mr. Rothe Ruth Kommerell : Mrs. Rothe Irene Mahlich : Interpreter Giso Weißbach : Young teacher Ursula Braun : flower woman Fred Alexander : Waiter

Hey you! is a German love film by DEFA by Rolf Römer from 1970.

action

Berlin, shortly before Christmas: 28-year-old Ellen Volkmann is a committed teacher. When, during a substitute hour, she realizes that students have to read Bruno Apitz's novel Nackt unter Wölfen as school reading, but don't know what to do with the events behind the novel, she sees this as a failure of her colleagues and calls a teachers' conference at the school . In her class, too, she recognizes that individual students need special help. 12-year-old Peter already drinks and smokes. She visits his parents - the mother is alone with the child because the father always works abroad. She receives support from the boy's uncle, the construction brigadier Frank. When he finds out what his nephew is doing, he gives him beer with castor oil . Ellen is not very enthusiastic about the educational methods, but takes a liking to the down-to-earth Frank. He is so very different from her colleague Horst Bach, who has been friends with her for many years and would also want to marry her out of habit.

Ellen receives a visit from her sister Ulli. Both attend a concert and want to go on winter vacation to Thuringia together . They then plan to go to a class reunion ten years ago when they graduate from school. Shortly before departure, Frank and Horst meet, which leaves Frank in particular doubtful. Does Ellen even love him? Ellen uses the winter vacation to clarify her feelings. Meanwhile, Frank travels to Budapest on business , where he spends New Year's Eve with a colleague, but wakes up disillusioned the next morning. He's going back to Berlin in the new year and looking for Ellen, who, however, has gone to the class reunion. He travels to Moritzburg after her and picks her up from the meeting. They spend the night at Frank's parents' house. The next morning brings uncertainty on both sides, as neither wants to admit his feelings for the other. Only after the teachers' conference does Frank wait for Ellen and promises to wait for her every day.

production

Hey you! was shot in 1969 in Berlin, among other places. It had its premiere on January 29, 1970 at the Berlin Kino International .

The film was Rolf Römer's directorial debut, who also wrote the script. The role of Maxe Krahl is not played by him, as is often claimed, but by his father, who also bears the name Rolf Specht.

Etta Cameron makes a brief appearance in the film. During a concert that Ellen and Ulli attend, she sings the song Jungle City, USA .

criticism

The contemporary criticism found that the film addressed many aspects, such as the war in Vietnam, the race riots in the USA and the responsibility of teachers, but that all of this was only "touched on, touched upon, with sometimes precocious, sometimes bold dialogues". Other critics criticized the fact that the film only shows the positive sides of the GDR and that it is reluctant to explore conflicts deeper.

The film-dienst found: “Using the example of the love of a young teacher for a building brigadier, the unsuccessful attempt is made to show the socialist way of life in dealing with everyday problems in the GDR. A diligently progressive, artistically highly insecure film, particularly interesting as a time-critical document. "

Cinema saw “ideologically carved models from the 'workers and peasants' state' in the film. Conclusion: No, what was it nice in the GDR ... "

literature

• F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 237-238 .

Web links

• Hey you! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Hey you! at filmportal.de
• Hey you! at the DEFA Foundation

Individual evidence

1. ^ Renate Holland-Moritz : cinema owl . In: Eulenspiegel , No. 8, 1970.
2. ↑ Heinz Kersten 1970. Quoted from Habel, p. 238.
3. ↑ Hey, you! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 21, 2018 .  
4. ↑ See cinema.de , accessed on July 21, 2018.